Glove.



No. 800,842. PATENTED OCT. 3, 1905. P. H. BUSBY.

GLOVE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10,1903

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' GLOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed August 10, 1903. Serial No. 168,886.

To (1] Z whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, FRnnnRioK H. BUSBY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to the class of gloves.

The objects of my invention are to reduce the cost of manufacture and to improve both the efficiency and attractiveness of the glove, thereby rendering it more desirable.

My improvement has to do with the embroidery ornamentation of the back of the glove, and it may be briefly stated to consist in a glove having in its back seams an intervening welt the exposed outer edge of which is embroidered.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a back view of my improved glove. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section through the back of the glove of Fig. 1, showing the embroidered welt-seams. Fig. 3 is a view of a piece of welt provided with embroidery and which is to be used in the back seams of Fig. I. Fig. 4 is a back view of a glove designed to illustrate a common form of embroidered back seams. Fig. 5 is a cross-section, enlarged, to show the character of the embroidered back seams of the glove of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a back view of a glove designed to illustrate another common form, said glove having in its back seams a plain welt and having also parallel with said seams lines of embroidery done in the material of the glove where there are no seams. Fig. 7 is a cross-section, enlarged, to illustrate the seams and embroidery-lines of the glove of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a piece of the common plain welt used in the glove of Fig. 6.

In order to better understand my invention, 1 refer first to Fig. 4, wherein is shown a common construction of glove A, having embroidered back scams (4, which are made, as

shown in Fig. 5, of the directly-abutting edges of the material drawn together into a relief or raised line by overstitching embroidery. In this case the same stitches form the seam connection and the ornamentation. The objection to this construction is the liability of ripping, for if the thread be cut at any point the remainder can be drawn out, thus opening the seam. In view of the disadvantage of a seam of this character many gloves are made by turning down a hem at the adjoining edges, introducing a welt between said edges, and sewing through said hems and welt. This common construction, which results in a secure and lasting scam, I have illustrated in Fig 6, wherein the glove B has the welts bexposed in its back seams, while in Fig. 7 I show how the welt is sewed in, This welt,it must be observed, is a plain piece of material, such as is shown in Fig. 8. Now while this welt-seam construction gives a more secure seam than that of the glove of Fig. 4:, it entirely eliminates the desirable feature of embroidery. To meet the demand for this ornamentation and still to preserve the strong and lasting seam, it is common to independently ornament the back of the welt-seam glove by putting in lines of embroidery which have nothing to do with the seams. This I have shown in Fig. 6 by the embroidery-lines I), which lie between and parallel with the welts b, and, as shown in Fig. 7, are formed by stitching directly through and over a raised fold of the material; but this expedient is a costly one by increasing the labor, and, moreover, is not as desirable from an esthetic point of view as the glove of Fig. 4:, because it adds the ornamentation in the wrong place and leaves the welts uncovered and inconsistent with the embroidery. In other words, the embroidered seams of Fig. 4:, while attractive, are mechanically defective. The plain welt-seams are effective in construction, but not attractive, and, finally, the glove of Fig. 6, with its plain welt-seams and intervening embroidery-lines, is costly to manufacture and of doubtful artistic value.

From this brief resume of the present conditions my improvement will be readily understood. I embroider or ornament by stitching, as shown at 0-, one edge of a welt 0, producing, as shown in Fig. 3, an embroidered welt. This welt may be of any length, and the embroidering being previously done to the use of the welt in the glove it may be continuously carried on. This work can be done very cheaply in comparison with any direct work on the glove itself. Now instead of using the plain welt, such as is shown in Fig. 8, for the glove-seams I use the embroidered welt c of Fig. 3, sewing it into the seams 0 as shown in Fig. 2, with the embroidered edge outwardly, thereby producing the embroidered seam-lines of the glove C of Fig. 1. Thus I provide with marked economy a welt-seam glove having judicious and tasteful embroidery. The embroidered welt may be used with advantage Where the embroidery is to show for but a portion of the seam simply by twisting it to present at proper places either the embroidered or the plain edge outwardly. This is indicated at the upper portions of the seams in Fig. 1, where the plain edge of the welt is made to show outwardly.

Having thus'described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A glove having an embroidered Welt in its back seams.

2. In a glove, a welt secured in the back seams of the glove said welt having an embroidered edge.

hand.

FREDERICK H. BUSBY. Witnesses:

VVALTEP. F. VANE, D. B. RICHARDS. 

